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How Early-Stage Startups Can Utilize the SVB Collapse as a Wake-Up Call

The Startup Magazine

We’re hitting record revenue months, weeks, and margins. Don’t be afraid to pivot The collapse of SVB spurred us to do a deep evaluation of how we’re generating revenue and value for customers. So instead of throwing dollars and time at a revamp, we’re doubling down on what we already know is the best value and revenue generator.

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Entrepreneurs, Commit Not These 7 Deadly Sins

YoungUpstarts

There’s a lot of focus these days on teaching entrepreneurs how to do startups right : Validate the market before you build a prototype. The truth is, there are “wrong” mistakes that entrepreneurs can make early in the game, mistakes that will impact a startup’s ability to attract capital investment later on. Conserve cash.

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After 20 years: Updating the Berkus Method of valuation

Berkonomics

There is a universal truth: fewer than one in a thousand start-ups meet or exceed their projected revenues in the periods planned. I thought then that the best way to value a start-up is to give value to those elements of progress by the entrepreneur or team that reduce risk of success. The Method should allow for this.

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College Fitness Wins Global Student Entrepreneur Award

Campus Entrepreneurship

We’ve seen a lot of solid entrepreneurs coming out of TCU. million in revenue expected this year, and landed partnerships with such companies and universities as Google and the University of Oklahoma. Brent Skoda Of College Fitness Wins Global Student Entrepreneur Award – Entrepreneurship – Portfolio.com.

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Kevin Durant Could Teach Businesses a Thing or Two

crowdSPRING Blog

Kevin Durant, former star of the Oklahoma City Thunder, announced that he would be leaving the city where he made his name to play for the Golden State Warriors, and people had some feelings about it. Related posts: 6 great athlete-entrepreneurs and what they accomplished. This is apparently a big deal to those who love basketball.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Blding Mat.,

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Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. My original post discussed marketing and selling a software product, where achieving $2500/month in revenue is quite a task. #16 at 1:08 pm [.]